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by jeffmould 3968 days ago
Actually for TV and radio there are several companies doing remnant ad sales which are fairly affordable and can be spun up pretty quickly. The hard part of TV ads on the fly is you need to have some production quality which can add expense and time. Not so much for radio. With billboards, I do know there are remnant sales there, but again you have a lead time to produce the banner that is attached to the billboard.

One company that comes to mind off the top of my head in the radio/TV space is Bid4Spots.com. Basically like Google AdWords for TV. There was talk at one time of Google offering a similar product, but I don't know what ever happened to it. Finally, there was another company that had an entire ad wizard for TV ads. Essentially you could pick choose music, or do a voice over, add some text, and have a generic video playing in the background. You could essentially create an entire ad and have it on TV in a day. I can't remember the name of the company though.

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Wow, I didnt know this things actually existed.

On the hindsight, we will need bigger players. Because the physical Ad networks in different countries are so wildly different that it'll need to approach them one-by-one like Uber. Probably, they wont be able to buy in bulk just at first, instead will use some local 3rd-party providers.

Also, Bid4Spots.com seems to be radio-only. Did it support TV ads too earlier?
I thought it supported TV buying as well, but could be wrong.
ViddyAd.com is the name of the online TV ad builder I was trying to remember.